Drinking-trough for hogs or cattle.



No. 6e|,|o2. Patented Nov. 6, I900.

J. w. snouswow.

DRINKING TROUGH, FOB HUGS .OR CATTLE,

(Application filed July 12. 1900.1

(No llodal.)

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JURGEN W. GRONEWOLD, OF'GOLDEN, ILLINOIS.

DRlNKING-TROUGH FOR HOGS OR CATTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,102, dated November 6, 1900.

Application filed July 12, 1900. serial in. 23,394. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J URGEN W. GRONE- WoLD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Golden, in the countyof Adams and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drinking-Troughs for Hogs or Cattle; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others.

skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in drinking-troughs for hogs and cattle; and its object is to provide a trough which may be conveniently applied to a barrel or watersupply tank and is provided with improved means for automatically regulating the supply of water thereto.

The invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described,and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical transverse section through the central compartment of a drinking-trough embodying1nyinvention,the trough beingshown connected to a barrel or water-supply tank. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the bracket.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral 1 represents the water-tank, which is divided by partitions 2 to form a central floatcompartment 3 and drinking-compartnients 4, said drinkingcompartments being in com- -munication with the float-compartment inlet tube or nozzle 9, applied thereto, which tube or nozzle is provided with a strainer 9 to prevent the inlet of any foreign substances with the water into the pipe. The opposite end 8 of the pipe 7 is also threaded and passes through a threaded opening 10, formed in the central body portion of a substantially U-shaped bracket 11, secured to the inner face of the rear wall of the tank, as shown. Mounted in the forwardly-projecting arms 12 of this bracket is a pintle or rod 13, upon which is hinged or pivoted a float 14, located within said compartment 3 and adapted to rise and fall with the water therein. To the under side of the float 14 is connected a body 15, of cork or some other suitable buoyant material, which. adapts the said float 14 to rest upon the surface of the water and to rise and fall correspondingly therewith.

The flow of water through the pipe 7 into the compartment- 3 of the trough is regulated by a valve or cut-ofi 16, slidably mounted in the float 14 and provided with a longitudinal slot 17, through which, passes a screw-pin or a similar fastening device 18, adj ustably connecting said valve or cut-01f to the float.

The valve or cut-01f has a right angular lip or projecting portion 19, provided on its innor face with a packing 20, .of leather, rubber, or other suitable material, adapted when the float rises to a horizontal position to bear against the end 8 of the pipe and cut off the flow of water from the tank into the trough.

It will be understood that when the water in the trough falls below a predetermined height thefloat- 14: will drop down and withdraw the lip 19 of the sliding valve or cut-0E from contact with the end 8 of the pipe 7, whereupon water from the barrel or tank 5 will flow through said tank and into the compartment 3, and thence into the drinkingcompartments 4. When'the water rises again to the predetermined height, however, the float is raised thereby to a horizontal position and the lip of the valve again brought into engagement with the end of the supplypipe to seal the same and cut ed the flow of water, whereby the supply of water from the barrel or tank to the trough is automatically regulated and the water in the trough maintained at a predetermined height. It will be seen that by adjustably connecting the ends of the pipe with the inlet tube or nozzle and the bracket the parts may be readily and conveniently adjusted to adapt the float and connections to be applied to tanks and troughs of different thicknesses, while at the same time the pipe end 8 may be adjusted as required to effect a more perfect union between it and the valve when the latterhas been adjusted to the limit of its movement in either direction. The bracket, furthermore, acts as a stay to properly center the pipe and prevent it from being displaced and by any casual movements of the trough enlarging the openings in the tank and trough through which it passes. it will also be seen that the device is simple in construction, effective in action, and adapted to be applied with ease and facility to tanks and troughs of different sizes and tliirknt ssts.

Another advantage is that as the valve is located wholly exteriorly of the barrel or supply-tankit is readily accessible, so that any foreign matter lodging so as to prevent a perfeet closure between the lip 19 and end 8 of the pipe 7 may be easily and conveniently re moved.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Q In adrinking-trough for hogs and cattle, the

combination, with a barrel 0r supply-tank, of a trough partitioned to form a central floatcompartment and one or more drinking-001m partmeu t-s,said d rinkbig-compartments being in communication With the float-com partmeut through openings in the partitious,braces connecting the tank and trough,a Water-supply pipe extending through the adjacent Walls of the trough and tank and having threaded ends,anadjustableinlet tube ornozzle threaded onto the end of the pipe within the barrel and provided with a strainer, a substantially Ushaped adjustable bracket upon the interior of the tloat-cotnpartment and threaded upon the contiguous end of the pipe, a pintle mounted in the arms of said bracket, a float. hinged or pivoted to said pintle and held by the arms of the bracket from lateral play, and an adjustable valve or cut-off carried by the tioat and adapted to control the flow of water through the discharge-pipe, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JURGEN \V. GRONEWOLD.

Witnesses:

ALBERT J AUSSEAR, J. J. EMMINGA. 

